Telegram-herald., 1887-08-15

All rLe eri1les, tAsrelors, IA rony ealsad
taefn ~NelhodlstS
[ aan ted thai Ia Astor llbrsrF New York.
keez a. exEiozir7s TIERS afe feI hcoks asa
p2napAl<ss s9siast AelhQel-ls- I'D latsler-
ascs s1oe thai ckarcli NJ, is s elEher Elst
or seeoed amid t1e Denominations q Cars
teR.ioH aer llsissienzry stations ln al parts
of the HoFAl, aer msa not only impsTtant Ia
religious truss. Bat Important also ia
secular trusts Church marching on, and
ths more Intolerance against h, tie faster il
marched
Bhat did intolerance accomplish against
the Baptist chsrchi II laughing scorn and
TRADE could have destroyed tie church il
would not have today disciple left.
The B4Brists were hurled Out of Boston ia
the olden TinaeS ThCss who sympathizsd
with them we're e0nnEed, and whsn petition
was offered asking leniency Ia tAeir sehaif
al men tho signed il were indicted Has tn
tolerance stopped tbs Baptist churchi The
last statistics ia regard % it showed about
~, CD churches aud about Z. SOC, 90 c0mmani-
canLs. inxoleTance never pat down anything.
In England ls~ was made against the
Jew. England thrust back the jew and
thrust down the Jew, and declared that no
Jew should hold official position What
came OF iti We're the Jews destroyedi Was
their religion Oserthrosni No. Who De
came prime minister of England years
ae0s Who wss next 10 the thr0nei Who
Was higher than the throne because he was
counselor and aiviserl The descendant Of q
Jew What we're We celebrating ia all our
churches as Wei synagOgues fen years
agol Tbs one huudredth birthday anniver-
sary OF Montshore, the great Jewish philan-
thropi1. Intolerance never yet put down
anything.
III But now, my friends, having shown
you the origin OF bigotry or sectarianisn, and
having shown you the damage il does, want
briefly 10 show you how we are 10 war against
this terrible evil, and think we ought to
begin our war by realizing our weakness and
our imperfectlOns- II We make SO many
mistakes in the common Affairs Of life, is it
not possible that we may make mistakes in
regard 20 our religious afYairsi Shall we
take man by the throat, or by the collar
because he cannot see religious truths just as
we doi In the light OF eternity it viii be
/ found out, l think, there was something
wrong ia an our creeds, and something right
| ia al our creeds But since we may make
mistakes in regard % things Of the world. do
not let Us be egotistic, and 50 puffsd up as to
| have an idea that we cannot make any mis-
| take in regard 70 religious theories And
| then think we will do great deal 10 over
| throw the sectarianism from our heart, and
the sectarianism from the world, by chiefly
| enlarging upon those things in which we
| agree rather than those on which we differ
Now, here is great Gospel platform. A
man comes up on this side the platform and
| says: Il don't believe in baby SprinlIling. =
Snail shove him offl Here is man coming
M on this side the platform, and he says: Il
don't believe in the perseverance OF the
| saintS.' Shall | shove bin off, No. / will
| say: ~Do you believe in the Lord Jesus as
| your Savieurl doiyou trust him for tisne and
| for eternityP He says, YES do you
| take Christ for time and for eternity r
yes / say, "Come on, brothers; enc in
| time and one in eternity; brother now,
| brother forever" Blessed be God for Cos
| pei platform so large that all who receive
| Christ may stand on i'll
| think we may overthrow the severe sec
tarianiSm and bigotry in our hearts, ana in
| the church also, by realizing that all the de-
| nominations of Christians have yielded noble
| institutions and noble mea. There is nothing
| that 50 stirs my soul this thought. One
denomination yielded a Robert Hall and an
| Adoniram Judson: another yielded a Lati-
| mer and a Melville; another yielded John
| Wesley and the blessed Summerdeld, while
| our own denomination yielded John Knox
/ and the Alexanders--men OF whom the world
was not worthy. Now, / say, il we are hon
| hest and fair minded men, when we come UP
| in the presence OF such churches and spch de-
nominations, although they may be different
| from our own, we ought TO admire them, aeld
we ought 70 love and honor them. Shurches
| which can produce such men, and such large
| hearted charity, and such magnificent mar
| tyrsiom, ought TO win our affection-at any
rate, our respect So come on. We 100. .OOO
| Episcopalians in this country, and ye SCegOO
Presbvterians, and ye 2,35O,000 Baptists, and
We nearly 3,75OO00 Methodists-come on.
| shoulder 10 shoulder we will march for the
worlds conquest; for all nations are TO be
saved, and God demands that you and help
| do il. Forward, the whole line.
Moreover, we NAV also overthrow the feel
ing Of severe secfarianism by joining other
| denominations in Christian work I like
when the springtime comes and the anniver-
sary occasions begin and Ill denominations
come upon the same platform. That over
throws sectarianism. In the Young Men:
! Christian association, in the Bible society. IN
tae Tract society, in the Foreign Mission,ry y
society, shoulder to shoulder all denomina-
| tionS.
Perhaps might more forcibly illustrate
this truth by calling your attention TO an in
cident which took place fourteen or ffteeu
years ago. One Monday morning at about
2 o'clock, while her 600 passengers were sound
asleep IN her berths dreaming OF home, the
| steamer Atlantic crashed into Mars Head
| Five hundred souls in ten minutes landed In
eternityl Oh. what = scen-i Agonized mer
and women running mp and down the gang
WAYS and clutching for the rigging, and tho
plunge Of the helpless steamer, and the clap
ping OK the hands Of the mercilsss sea over
the drowning and the dead. threw two cont
nents into terror Sd. see this brave quar-
termaster pushing out with the life line ufsi
he gets 20 the rock. ana see these fishermen
gathering ND the shipwrecked cad tak
ing them into the cabins and wrapping
them in the aannels snug aud warm: and ~.
tat minister Of the Gospel with three othe'
men getting into lifeboat and pushing on
for tie wreck. pulling away acr0ss the sur
sad pulling avav until they saved one mor'
usn. and then getting back with him "a th'
shors. Can those men ever forget that night
Ani can they ever forget their companion
ship in peril couuusuionship in struggle. com
panionship in awful catastrophe and rescue
Never Never In Whatever part Of th
esrtn they alees they viii - friends weei
thay mention the story of that s~f1l nigh
wben 80 Atlantic struck Mars Head
Vel. ny friend. cur word has gone into
vrrss sbiuwrsck Sin drove it ca toe TO- IS
The Old ship has lurehed snd tossed 10 th'
tsrnpests q 81 -aosssnd years OBf With th.
he linef I 80 not Gaze what demon matte
esrrfa T. Out ~lsh the ffeboati 90 -
rare -hss Senorninsti-a rows IL SIDE ~
vde in the m~rnsryof - copaEnon bsrdships s0i
eosnnioa trails. an3 common prayers. sd